Northern Renaissance
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The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps, developing later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects only beginning in the last years of the 15th
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, National Gallery, London. An Italian merchant based in Bruges in modern Belgium
The Adoration of the Magi in the snow, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1584–1638
Reproduction of Johannes Gutenberg-era Press on display at the Printing History Museum in Lyon, France.
The Ghent Altarpiece (interior view) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, completed 1432. Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
Jan van Eyck
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Jan van Eyck was an early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme figures of the Early N
Northern Renaissance
…Netherlandish painting often included complicated iconography, and art historians have debated the "hidden symbolism" of works by artists like Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The detailed realism of Early Netherlandish painting, led by Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck in the 1420s and 1430s, is today generally considered to…
Presumed Self Portrait, 1433. National Gallery, London
Portrait of Margaret van Eyck, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 1439